Artificer

Artificer is the class-specific skill of the Wizards of the Academy town in Heroes of Might and Magic V.

Basic Artificer icon

Advanced Artificer icon

Expert Artificer icon

Ultimate Artificer icon

Effects

Artificer allows the construction of artifacts that can be equipped by the units.

• Basic Artificer allows the hero to create creature equipment of the first level.
• Advanced Artificer allows the hero to create creature equipment of the second level.
• Expert Artificer allows the hero to create creature equipment of the third level.
• Ultimate Artificer reduces the price of creating creature equipment by half.

The Wizard can create artifacts with various effects. To craft them, the hero has to use an appropriate amount of resources for each effect: 5 for first, 10 for second and 15 for third effect. The artifacts have an efficiency, which depends on the Wizard's Knowledge level (capped at Knowledge 60), with every effect starting at Knowledge level 1:

Name	Effect	Resource 1	Resource 2	Efficiency
Armor crushing	Decreases enemy Defense on attacking.	Ore	Sulfur	-(1 + Knowledge / 15)
Speed	Increases Speed.		Mecury
Luck	Increases Luck.	Wood	Crystal	1 + Knowledge / 10
Morale	Increases Morale.	Ore	Sulfur
Health	Increases maximum Hit Points.	Wood	Gems	1 + Knowledge / 5
Piercing	Increases Attack.	Ore	Crystal	1 + Knowledge / 4
Defense	Increases Defense.	Wood
Haste	Increases Initiative.	Mercury	Sulfur	1% * Knowledge (capped at 50)
Magic Protection	Increases Magic Resistance.	Wood	Gems	Special

Knowledge to Magic Protection

0	0%	1	6%	2	13%	3	19%	4	25%	5	29%	6	34%	7	37%	8	41%	9	44%
10	47%	11	49%	12	52%	13	54%	14	56%	15	58%	16	60%	17	61%	18	63%	19	64%
20	66%	21	67%	22	68%	23	69%	24	70%	25	71%	26	72%	27	73%	28	74%	29	75%
30	76%	32	77%	33	78%	35	79%	37	80%	39	81%	41	82%	45	83%	49	84%	60	85%

Skill rates

Only the Wizard class can learn Artificer skill, at 10% probability.

Abilities

Icon	Name	Description	Unlocks		Notes
			Original / Hammers of Fate	Tribes of the East
	Consume artifact	Special combat ability. Allows the Wizard to consume artifacts equipped on friendly creature to heal and resurrect it in combat.	Tear of Asha vision (Luck)	Arcane excellence (Sorcery)
			Tremors (War Machines)	Retribution (Leadership)
	Magic mirror	Every damaging or cursing spell cast by the enemy has a chance to be randomly reflected to some other target, including enemy units.	Sap magic (Destructive Magic)		Galib is a specialist in this ability, as redirected spells will more likely affect enemy troops.
			Erratic mana (Sorcery)	Retribution (Leadership)
			Power of Endurance (Defense)	Banish (Summoning Magic)
				Seal of Darkness (Dark Magic)
				Suppress Light (Light Magic)
	Mark of the Wizard	Special combat ability. The caster binds themselves to the target with Mark of the Wizard until the end of combat so that each subsequent spell striking that target has its effect doubled and costs as much mana as needed for this double effect. Moreover every spell striking another creature will affect this target as well. If there is not enough mana, the effect is not doubled.	Wall of fog (Summoning Magic)	Exorcism (Summoning Magic)
			Fiery wrath (Destructive Magic)	Remote control (War Machines)
				Cold steel (Attack)
				Teleport assault (Logistics)
	Arcane omniscience	All spells in existence will be written to the hero's spellbook and the hero will be able to cast them on expert level.	This is the ultimate Artificer skill; it does not unlock other abilities, but it requires abilities from other skills:		This skill lets the hero cast all ordinary spells; mass and empowered spells are not added to the spellbook.
			graduate cold steel erratic mana wall of fog	arcane excellence tremors mentoring

Bonuses

• Galib, is a specialist in magic mirror ability, for any hostile spell redirected will more likely affect an enemy than a friendly unit.